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Memorial Page for Pierre Bourdieu (née Pierre Félix Bourdieu)
Aug 1, 1930 – Jan 23, 2002(71 years)Died in:12th arrondissement of Paris, Île-de-France
French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher
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Pierre Bourdieu (* August 1, 1930 in Denguin; † January 23, 2002 in 12th arrondissement of Paris) was a french sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher. He was 71 years old. He was married to Marie-Claire Bourdieu. His education included École Normale Supérieure, Lycée Louis-Barthou and Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He received 9 awards, including CNRS Gold medal, Ernst Bloch Award. His cause of death was cancer. He was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
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16 EventsBorn in Denguin, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
1930Lycée Louis-le-Grand
1948École Normale Supérieure
1951Faculty of Arts of Paris
1960School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
1975Collège de France
1981professor · until 2001
Goethe Medal
1988Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin
1989CNRS Gold medal
1993honorary doctor of the University of Athens
1996honorary doctorate of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt
1996Ernst Bloch Award
1997Lysenko Prize
1998honorary doctorate
1999Huxley Memorial Medal
2000Died in 12th arrondissement of Paris, Île-de-France (cancer)
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Pierre Bourdieu (née Pierre Félix Bourdieu). Forever remembered.